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New — done-for-you Direct marketing

The revenue intelligence platform that shows you what the OTAs really cost you.

See your true cost of distribution, real RevPAR and direct-booking share — then let our team go win those bookings back for you. Built for independent hotels; no revenue manager required.

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The Marlowe · Last 30 days
RevPAR
$184.20+18.4%
Direct share
57%+11 pts
OTA cost
$12,840−9.2%
RevPAR · trailing 12 wk trending up
Channel mix
Direct 57%Booking 26%Expedia 11%Other 6%

Trusted by independents · featured in

  • Skift
  • PhocusWire
  • HospitalityNet
  • Hotel Tech Report
  • The Resident Hotelier
The quiet leak

The OTAs are quietly running your hotel.

Every Booking.com reservation hands over 15–25%. Expedia takes its cut too. You feel it in your margin, but it never shows up as a line item — so it never gets fixed.

Meanwhile the data that would tell you what's actually working is scattered across your PMS, your channel manager, Google and Meta. No one's pulling it together. You're flying a profitable little business on instinct.

You're not a Marriott. You shouldn't have to pay like one, or hire like one, to fix it.

A typical 30-room independent
Annual room revenue
$2.4M
Booked via OTAs
61%
Paid in commission last year
$293,000
Recoverable with a direct strategy
~$150,000

Illustrative figures based on typical independent-hotel distribution costs. HotelGauge shows you the real number for your property — free.

One platform, two jobs

The software shows you the truth. The team goes and fixes it.

Most tools give you a dashboard and wish you luck. HotelGauge gives you the dashboard — and, if you want it, a marketing team that acts on it.

HotelGauge Analytics

Connect your data and finally see your hotel clearly: RevPAR, direct share, booking pace, and the true cost of every channel — in plain English, updated live.

  • Live RevPAR, ADR & occupancy
  • True cost of acquisition by channel
  • RevPAR Index vs. your compset
  • Self-serve from $129/mo — free to start

HotelGauge Direct

Done-for-you marketing that wins back direct bookings. We run the paid search, metasearch and funnels — and you watch every dollar tie to a booking in the same dashboard.

  • Managed Google Hotel Ads, Meta & metasearch
  • Commission-free direct booking engine
  • Conversion-optimized funnels & retargeting
  • Performance-based pricing
Speaks your language

The metrics that actually run a hotel

No vanity charts. HotelGauge surfaces the eight numbers boutique operators live and die by — and tells you what to do about each.

RevPAR
Revenue per available room

Your scoreboard number — ADR × occupancy.

ADR
Average daily rate

What each occupied room actually earns.

Direct %
Direct booking share

The bookings you own — and don't pay commission on.

OTA Cost
OTA commission & distribution cost

What Booking and Expedia really take, in dollars.

CPA
Cost of acquisition by channel

Direct ~5–10% vs OTA 15–25%+. Now you can prove it.

GOPPAR
Gross operating profit per room

Not just revenue — what you keep.

RGI
RevPAR Index vs. your compset

Are you winning your fair share of the local market?

Pace
Booking pace & pickup

Where the next 90 days are trending, on the books.

The platform

A revenue command center, minus the analyst

Everything the chains pay a revenue team for — designed so an owner can read it in a glance over morning coffee.

Hotelier reviewing performance on a laptop

Every number that matters, in one honest view

RevPAR, ADR, occupancy, direct share, booking pace — pulled live from your PMS and channel manager and translated into plain English. No spreadsheets, no analyst required.

  • Live RevPAR, ADR & occupancy with trends
  • 90-day booking pace and pickup on the books
  • Plain-language insights, not a wall of charts
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See exactly what distribution really costs

We put a dollar figure on every channel. Booking.com, Expedia, metasearch, direct — ranked by true cost of acquisition so you can stop overpaying for bookings you could have won yourself.

  • True CPA by channel, in dollars not percentages
  • OTA commission tracked against direct cost
  • Profit framing: GOPPAR, not just top-line revenue
Characterful independent hotel facade

Know your fair share of the local market

Benchmark your RevPAR Index against your real compset. Are you winning your fair share of the market, or leaving it on the table? Now you'll know — every single week.

  • RevPAR Index vs. your local compset
  • Rate positioning and parity alerts
  • Quarterly boutique benchmark report included
How it works

From blind spot to direct bookings in three steps

01

Connect in minutes

Link your PMS, channel manager and ad accounts. We support Mews, Cloudbeds, OPERA, SiteMinder and more — secure, read-only, done in an afternoon.

02

See the truth

Your free revenue snapshot lands: real RevPAR, direct share, and what the OTAs are quietly costing you. Most owners find five figures they didn't know they were losing.

03

Win back direct

Use the dashboard yourself, or let HotelGauge Direct run the marketing for you. Either way, you watch direct bookings climb — measured against every dollar spent.

HotelGauge Direct

Don't have time to run the marketing? We'll run it.

Turn the insight into bookings without hiring an agency. Our team executes against your data and reports in pure ROI.

Hotel terrace dining at sunset

A marketing team that lives inside your numbers

HotelGauge Direct runs your paid search, metasearch and social — Google Hotel Ads, Meta, the lot — all measured inside the same dashboard. Every dollar of spend ties to a booking you can see.

A direct booking engine that keeps the commission

Convert lookers into direct bookers on your own site with a fast, beautiful, commission-free booking engine — price-parity messaging included, so guests never have a reason to leave for an OTA.

See the full Direct playbook
From the front desk

Loved by the people who actually run the hotel

We were handing Booking.com nearly a quarter of every reservation and calling it a marketing strategy. HotelGauge showed us the real cost in dollars, then rebuilt our direct channel. Direct is now 58% of revenue.
Eleanor VanceOwner, The Marlowe · Charleston, SC
I don't have a revenue manager — I have a front desk and a spreadsheet. HotelGauge is the analyst I could never afford, and the marketing team I didn't have time to hire.
Marco BianchiGeneral Manager, Villa Serena · Lake Como, IT
The first snapshot was a gut-punch — and the most useful thing anyone's ever shown me about my own hotel. RevPAR is up 22% and I finally know which campaigns actually pay.
Priya NairFounder, Kestrel House · Cornwall, UK
Plays nicely with your stack

Connected to the tools you already run

Secure, read-only connections to your PMS, channel manager and ad accounts. Most properties are live the same afternoon.

  • Mews
  • Cloudbeds
  • Oracle OPERA
  • SiteMinder
  • Little Hotelier
  • RMS Cloud
  • Google Hotel Ads
  • Meta
  • Stripe
  • Booking.com
  • Expedia
  • Apaleo
Transparent pricing

Priced for independents. Published, because you deserve to know.

No 'contact sales' wall to see what the software costs. Start free, upgrade when it pays for itself.

Snapshot

See your real numbers and what the OTAs cost you.

Freeforever
Get your free snapshot
  • Live RevPAR, ADR & occupancy
  • Direct vs. OTA channel mix
  • One property, one connected source
  • Quarterly boutique benchmark report
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Intelligence

The full revenue command center for self-serve operators.

$129/ property / mo
Start 14-day trial
  • Everything in Snapshot
  • True cost of acquisition by channel
  • 90-day booking pace & pickup
  • RevPAR Index vs. your compset
  • Rate parity & positioning alerts
  • All integrations included

Direct

We run the marketing and fill your rooms for you.

Custom+ performance
Book a strategy call
  • Everything in Intelligence
  • Done-for-you paid & metasearch
  • Commission-free booking engine
  • Dedicated growth strategist
  • Conversion-optimized funnels
  • Performance-based pricing

Per property, billed monthly or annually. See full pricing & FAQ →

Questions, answered

Everything you might be wondering

HotelGauge is two things in one: a revenue-intelligence platform that shows independent and boutique hotels their real numbers — RevPAR, direct-booking share, and what the OTAs actually cost — and an optional done-for-you marketing service (HotelGauge Direct) that wins back direct bookings, all measured in the same dashboard.

No. HotelGauge is built specifically for owners and GMs who don't have a revenue team. It translates your data into plain-language insights and clear next steps, so you don't need to read a single spreadsheet.

Your PMS runs operations; your channel manager pushes rates. Neither tells you whether you're winning or what your distribution truly costs. HotelGauge sits on top of them, turns their data into revenue intelligence, and — if you want — executes the marketing to improve it.

Mews, Cloudbeds, Oracle OPERA, SiteMinder, Little Hotelier, RMS Cloud and more, plus Google Hotel Ads, Meta and Stripe. Connections are secure and read-only, and most properties are live the same afternoon.

The Snapshot plan is free forever. Intelligence is $129 per property per month with a 14-day trial. HotelGauge Direct, our managed marketing service, is custom-priced with a performance component — you can see real pricing without talking to sales.

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Start free

See what your hotel is really earning — in minutes.

Connect your data and get a free revenue snapshot: RevPAR, direct-booking share, and exactly what the OTAs are costing you. No card, no contract.